Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian architects, stonemasons and carpenters built office buildings, theaters and homes in Addis Ababa. Electrical engineers installed power plants. But Ethiopia is far from modernized. It lacks tractors, plows, harrows to till the rich valleys and lowlands. It lacks trucks to haul wheat, coffee, rubber, cotton into Addis Ababa, to be shipped thence by rail to Djibouti harbor on the Gulf of Aden...
...shortage facing the U.S. is of cotton goods. U.S. citizens might be excused for wondering whether there will be a shortage of air and water next. For years millions of Americans have been perennially sandbagged with "Buy Cotton" campaigns that have made it seem like the one inexhaustible fabric. But now, though the surplus of raw cotton is still a fact, the surplus of cotton in textile form is turning into a mirage. The components are the same as ever: lack of manpower, military demand, price ceilings at the wrong levels...
Doubts and Headlines. Last year the U.S. produced 11.25 billion yd. of cotton fabrics - an alltime high that kept U.S. looms at practical capacity. But consumption was enormous too: the nation went into 1943 with retail stocks of fabricated cotton (2.96 billion yd.) barely equal to the year before. Government men still bravely insist that this year's production will be at least as high as 1942's, but the trade demurs: manpower is cruelly scarce, irreplaceable equipment is wearing out. Costs are up drastically and prices (except at the raw level) are fixed. None of this encourages...
Last week the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare estimated that the Germans had plundered $36,000,000,000 worth of automobiles, petroleum products, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, hides, clothes, soap, toothpaste, razor blades, cotton, cattle, bauxite, cauliflower, fish, horses, wines, locomotives, trains, trackage, houses, seaport equipment, steel works, forests, trucks, tank cars, art collections, cattle herds, ships, in the countries of conquered Europe...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...